Academic Skills Center
Tutoring Services
The Academic Skills Center (ASC) is located in the Learning Resource and Technology Center and offers tutoring services at no charge to students with academic needs. Tutors will be available during the scheduled times in the ASC (see schedule below). Tutors will assist when needed and help students gain the study skills required to be successful in class. All tutoring is provided by peer tutors -- students who have completed coursework in the designated academic area. Peer tutors are familiar with course content as well as instructors' styles of delivery.
Please come prepared to a tutor's session. Students should come to the tutoring session after they have attempted the homework. At that time, tutors will assist students with a problem or concept they are having difficulty with. All students are required to turn off phones and respect others in the ASC and the LRTC.
Academic Skills Center Hours
The Academic Skills Center is open Monday-Friday 8:00-2:30. See tutor schedule for a details on specific tutor times.
Spring 2012 tutor schedule
Free mini-workshops
January 18th Study Groups
A study group is a great way to effectively learn. Here are a few resources about forming study groups and if you missed the study group workshop view it here.
January 25th How to Research Effectively
Find the online tutorial to effectively research here.
February 1st Test Taking Tips and Strategies
Test Taking Tips handout
Februry 8th Memory Plus- 11:00-12:00 room 71
Memory Plus handout and tips
February 22nd- Dealing with Life and the Unexpected 11:00-12:00 room 71
Contact the Academic Skills Center
Erin White, Academic Skills Center Director, may be reached via e-mail, whitee@pinetech.edu.
Online Tutoring Help
Khan Academy
The Khan Academy is an organization on a mission. We're a not-for-profit with the goal of changing education for the better by providing a free world-class education to anyone anywhere.
All of the site's resources are available to anyone. It doesn't matter if you are a student, teacher, home-schooler, principal, adult returning to the classroom after 20 years, or a friendly alien just trying to get a leg up in earthly biology. The Khan Academy's materials and resources are available to you completely free of charge.
With a library of over 2,400 videos covering everything from arithmetic to physics, finance, biology, chemistry and history and 180 practice exercises, we're on a mission to help you learn what you want, when you want, at your own pace.
Online Math Tutoring Help
Math.com
Math.com is an online resource dedicated to providing revolutionary ways for students to learn math. Combining educationally sound principles with proprietary technology, Math.com offers a unique experience that quickly guides the user to the solutions they need and the products they want. These solutions include assessment, on-demand modular courses that target key math concepts, 24/7 live online tutoring and expert answers to math questions.
MathWorld
MathWorld, a free resource from Wolfram Research built with Mathematica Technology, this resource was created, developed and nurtered by Eric Weisstein with contributions from the world's mathematial community.
SOS Mathematics
Created by a team of veteran math teachers and professors, SOS Mathematics is one of the leading math self-tutorial resources on the Web. The site includes extensive sample problem sets.
Online English Tutoring Help
If you are unable to make it during a scheduled English tutoring session, you may e-mail Erin White, Academic Skills Center Director, your paper (whitee@pinetech.edu). Include a description of your paper and describe areas where you feel you need help; for example, "This is a narrative paper, it must be MLA, my sentence structure, thesis and conclusion are not strong." A tutor will review your paper, and you may stop by the ASC and retrieve it with its reviewed comments.
OWL
Purdue University established an excellent online writing resource, OWL (online writing lab). OWL offers more than 200 free writing resources, including:
-- Writing and Teaching Writing
-- Research
-- Grammar and Mechanics
-- Style Guides
-- ESL (English as a Second Language)
-- Job Search and Professional Writing
